His story echoes a frightening pattern at Wildlife Conservation, a school where a student named Matthew McCree, 15, was stabbed to death last month by another student, Abel Cedeno, 18, who said he had been bullied. Another said she took her daughter out of the elementary school in the building after a high school student — Wildlife has a middle and high school — exposed himself to her daughter in the stairwell. In January, she pleaded with the school social worker to call her grandson’s therapist, who was worried about him. “The hospital was strongly recommending he not go back to that school, and his grandmother didn’t know what to do,” Mr. Cohen said. In April, he began at the Smith School, a private school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

Source: New York Times October 27, 2017 19:47 UTC